The characteristic initial value problem for colliding plane waves: the linear case

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/16/304zbMATH Open1018.83003arXivgr-qc/0206075OpenAlexW3098546971MaRDI QIDQ3149335FDOQ3149335

Authors: M. Santano-Roco, Jerry B. Griffiths 

Publication date: 23 April 2003

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The physical situation of the collision and subsequent interaction of plane gravitational waves in a Minkowski background gives rise to a well-posed characteristic initial value problem in which initial data are specified on the two null characteristics that define the wavefronts. In this paper, we analyse how the Abel transform method can be used in practice to solve this problem for the linear case in which the polarization of the two gravitational waves is constant and aligned. We show how the method works for some known solutions, where problems arise in other cases, and how the problem can always be solved in terms of an infinite series if the spectral functions for the initial data can be evaluated explicitly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0206075

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zbMATH Keywords

interactionplane wavescollisionAbel transform methodwell-posed characteristic initial value problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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